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Re-Awakening the Learner: Creating Learner-
Centric, Standards-Driven Schools by Copper
Stoll and Gene Giddings
The premise behind Copper Stoll and Gene
Giddings’ book: Re-awakening the sleeping giant
in education. And, who else could that be but
the learner? Bringing their combined experience,
research, and vision to bear, Stoll and Giddings’
Re-Awakening the Learner shines a light on the
systemic shift required to create a space and
opportunity for learners to be involved in every
step of their own education.
Making the Important Measurable, Not the
Measurable Important by Dr. E. Jane Davidson
and Joanne McEachen
Making the Important Measurable, Not the Measurable
Important delves into the land of “what-ifs?”
With one big “what-if” at the center of it all: What if
we truly put learners first? In this mini-book, Dr. E.
Jane Davidson and Joanne McEachen share their
Learners First TM approach to education—where what
really matters to and for learners is at the heart of
everything. From new assessment measures to new
tracking systems, their call is for a systems-wide
transformation.
Helping Children Succeed: What Works and Why
by Paul Tough
Following his acclaimed How Children Succeed, Paul
Tough offers Helping Children Succeed, which sets
out to address the questions that made the latter
so intriguing. Taking another look at the impact of
poverty on children’s mental health and physical
development, he shifts his focus to how we can help
children develop the skills and ways of being—grit,
curiosity, conscientiousness, self-control, and optimism—that
empower them to forge their own paths
and co-create their own learning.
As Number of Homeless
Students Soar, How Schools
Can Serve Them Better
In the last decade, the number
of homeless students has
doubled—reaching nearly
1.3 million people. How can
learner-centered environments
provide an avenue of
support for these kids struggling
to survive?
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Will Teaching Change or Will
We Just Keep Complaining?
Our education is a “a spiderweb
of interdependency,”
posits Teacher-Leader
Maddie Fennell. What does
that mean? For learnercentered
education to take
root, every strand of that web
must transformed.
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Beats, Rhymes, & Bunsen
Burners: Using Hip-Hop
as Teaching Tool
Science. Rap. Anthem.
Three words not often found
together. That is, unless you
know about Science Genius
B.a.t.t.l.e.s. (Bringing Attention
to Transforming, Teaching and
Learning Science) Program, a
New York City initiative seeking
to inspire in kids a passion
for the sciences.
Watch here
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